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We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
Lawyer
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U.S. Representative
Detroit
Michigan
Keith Maurice Ellison
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This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.
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Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.
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Can't be all men, can't be all white, can't be all black, can't be all straight. [It has] got to be a wide range of people. Can't be all people of one faith group. We need diversity so we can have the views of all Americans reflected in congressional outcomes.
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We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.
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The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
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We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.
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The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
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I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he`s choosing wrong Donald Trump.
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Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.
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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.
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I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.
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Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.
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What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.
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We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.
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One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction.
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I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.
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Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.
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Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.
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Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.
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